1. As healthcare providers face increasing pressures to lower costs and reduce readmissions, they're rapidly shifting towards accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other coordinated, quality-based reimbursement systems. However, most providers have historically organized their data and work?ows in ways that best ?t the fee-for-service payment model. Now that so many providers are sharing risks and rewards, they must also share and coordinate information by adopting more streamlined health information technology solutions. read more

2. Despite all the hype about macro-trends such as big data, mobile, social, and cloud, most CIOs would still cite their ERP application suite as the most important asset that the IT department delivers to the business. Arguably the most daunting project IT departments undertake is an ERP upgrade project. The impact of an ERP upgrade touches business processes, databases, information management, application code, integration, infrastructure, and most importantly a wide group of IT professionals and business users.   read more

3. THE PLANET IS GROWING A CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. Humans, natural systems and physical objects have always generated vast amounts of data. But until recently, even if that data was captured, it was dif?cult and time-consuming to use and analyze it in an intelligent and useful way. read more

4.If you are the person responsible for your organization's digital presence, you may still be operating under some false assumptions. You may believe, for example, your audience accesses your organization's site by clicking from Web browsers on PCs and laptops, but that assumption no longer holds. A device revolution is afoot. read more

5.Decision-makers in an IT-enabled economy will have real-time access to information that allows them to make the right decision at the right time. But that goal comes in a business environment where data will be ubiquitous and growing exponentially in volume. read more